Hi, I'm Jaffer! 👋

I'm a student at the University of Waterloo, building projects that get sh*t done. I'm ethnically Kenyan, but was born in Sydney, Australia. I spent a majority of my life living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia before finally moving to Waterloo for university. Aside from building software, I enjoy football (soccer), video games, anime and drawing. Currently interested in distributed systems, personal finance software, and AGI.

Currently...

Reading

"Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann; "Gachiakuta" by Kei Urana (Manga); "One Piece" by Eiichiro Oda (Manga); The "Scythe" Trilogy by Neal Shusterman.

Building

A personal finance web app that extracts and categorizes expenses from uploaded receipts using OCR (Tesseract) and NLP classification models.

Interested in

Database internals; 100%ing all the souls-like fromsoftware games (already done with Elden Ring, Dark Souls III, Sekiro, Nightreign) with Dark Souls I & II remaining; finally watching Arsenal win the Premier League for the first time since 03/04; reaching Ascendant in Valorant (currently hardstuck Diamond 2).

Working on

Trying to fix my sleep schedule, working out more, stressing out less.